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I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a s

I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. – Norman Mailer

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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. – Norman Mailer

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Boredom
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The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. – Norman Mailer

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Every word born of an inner necessity — writing must never be anything else. – Etty Hillesum, quoted in Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die by Karol Jackowski

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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. – E.L. Doctorow

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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 1894

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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used. – Polykarp Kusch

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Mans ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. – Paul Tillich

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. – Voltaire

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Do you know what happens after you lose the Super Bowl? The world ends. It just stops. – Joe Kapp

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